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Townsy_17

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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 14, 2018 at 10:02 p.m.
Appreciate the thought and effort put in to this. Although I do agree with the comments from some posters here that Marleau won't be moved. He has a NMC, just uprooted his family to be here, and is on a team that will hopefully be making a couple deep playoff runs in his final two years. The only way his contract comes off the books is if he retires after this season and the leafs trade his contract + a sweetener to a cap floor team

I'm likely in the minority here...but I don't think Zaitsev would be hard to move right now with 0 retention, as long as the leafs didn't care what the return was. He's had 1 solid season and 1 plauged by injury and illness. Honestly the Toronto media is to blame for how everyone in the area perceives him right now. As soon as he got injurred the Leafs' D started to struggle and the media was pining for his return. Him and Hainsey were logging all 2min of penalty kills. I think he got worn down, then sick, lost weight, and never caught up. Toronto would be wise to just keep him as he could very well be the answer at RD we need.

I don't see the need to trade Horton. He gets slapped on the LTIR so no use giving up an asset to move him. Plus he doesn't have insurance so whichever team has him on thier roster is paying his full salary which not too many teams can write off so easily.

Most other points I agree on. Particularly your assessment of Conor Brown. And your comments on Gardiner. I think his production offensively helps the team more than his occassional blunders hurts them. And at less than $6m is a good re-signing....for me it depends entirely on how Dermott looks this year. If he proves he's ready for full time top-6 minutes on the left side than Gardiner's cap dollars are likely better spent elsewhere.